SIDS & Infant Sleep Ecology

Ball, H.L.; Russell, C.K.

Abstract

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the designation given to the unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained following post-mortem, death scene investigation and review of clinical history [1]. The search for mechanisms underlying such deaths has been largely unsuccessful; brainstem anomalies are thought to be involved. Although rare SIDS is the leading category of non-accidental deaths between 1 month and 1 year of age, annually affecting one in 3000 babies in the UK and one in 2000 in USA. Key associations with SIDS are identified using retrospective studies of SIDS-cases and matched controls. Three key …

Citation

Ball, H., & Russell, C. (2014). SIDS & Infant Sleep Ecology. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2014(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eou023

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 16, 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 25, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 9, 2015
• Journal: Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
• Electronic ISSN: 2050-6201
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2014
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eou023
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1443045